POSTER: computer news || THE NEW VERSION OF GPU-Z FINALLY KILLS THE BELIEF IN THE MIRACLE OF VEGA TRANSFORMATION

DATE:2017-09-08

GPU-Z utility developers , gave the townspeople hope for the possibility of activating hidden functional units of the graphics processor AMD Vega 10.

Now, the version 2.4.0 is available for download, which corrects a misleading error with the recognition of the number of Radeon RX Vega 56 function blocks. It is good that this information reason worked well, although it did not become an impetus to the development of the topic.

THE NEW VERSION OF GPU-Z FINALLY KILLS THE BELIEF IN THE MIRACLE OF VEGA TRANSFORMATION

Manufacturers of motherboards are clearly interested in frequent changes in chipset, because it allows them to regularly sell new products. In the shrinking market of desktop components, this is one way to support the trade turnover, and Intel company with the release of processors Coffee Lake in the performance of LGA 1151 this desire completely indulges. Recall that to work with these processors will require new motherboards based on the set of logic Intel Z370.

On the site ASRock , meanwhile, processors Coffee Lake of the autumn assortment are already mentioned.

You can see that the Core i7 and Core i5 processors are based on U0 stepping, and the younger Core i3 processors use stepping B0. It is logical to assume that different crystals can be used for their production, because the older models of the family now offer six cores, and this increases the cost of the crystal. In this case, it is advantageous to produce younger processors of the series based on more compact crystals. It remains to wait for the first results of the "opening"
of these processors to make sure of the correctness of these assumptions. In the presence of a plastic thermo interface under the cover of Coffee Lake, we almost do not doubt.

THE MOTHERBOARD MANUFACTURER CONFIRMS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROCESSORS COFFEE LAKE

Back in June, NVIDIA demonstrated a prototype of the DGX-1 system with eight Tesla V100 computation accelerators with the Volta architecture. Judging by the early photographs, they were equipped with aluminum radiators, or copper coolers had a nickel coating. The other day NVIDIA announced the delivery of one of the first DGX-1 systems based on Volta accelerators to the American medical center CCDS, which is developing algorithms for accelerated analysis of the results of radiological diagnostics.
Roughly speaking, CCDS specialists developed the technology of "computer decoding" of X-ray images and their subsequent analysis.

The version of the DGX-1 based on eight Tesla V100 accelerators is equipped with two 20-core Xeon E5-2698 v4 processors from the Broadwell-EP generation, and each of the Volta generation accelerators carries 16 GB of HBM2 memory on board. The amount of RAM type DDR4-2133 reaches 512 GB. The disk system is represented by a RAID 0 array of four solid-state drives with a capacity of 1.92 TB. The cost of the system reaches $ 149,000.

The use of copper radiators on the Tesla V100 accelerators is cast into the eye. They are large enough, but this is also explained by the layout of the cooling system: blowing their fans are located at the wall of the shell, at some distance.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR COPPER COOLERS ON NVIDIA VOLTA COMPUTING ACCELERATORS

According to rumors, the announcement or the beginning of sales of Intel desktop processors, codenamed Coffee Lake will be held on October 5 . Together they will be presented with a compatible Intel Z370. This will be an intermediate solution, because the processors are already ready and they can not be installed in the motherboards of the 200 series. The location of the keys in the LGA 1151 connector in the case of Coffee Lake models is such that they do not fit into the connector on the
boards for Skylake or Kaby Lake, as well as the latter can not be installed in boards on 300 chipset.

In short, the Z370 will be actually the renamed Z270. A truly new chipset for Coffee Lake models is expected in the second half of next year, which will be Z390. Intel Z390 will bring to the company's platforms integrated Wi-Fi channel modem, six USB 3.1 ports and support for SDXC memory cards. Mass update of Intel chipsets for Coffee Lake processors of medium and low levels is expected in the first quarter of 2018. At this time, the market will have mobos on H370,
Q370, Q360, B360 and H310. All of them will receive new extensions, which will later appear in the Z390 set (built-in Wi-Fi and the rest).